This book contains all case law as well as a theoretical approach to all major issues related to the sports market. More specifically it covers issues such as the emerging independent sports legal order, the principle of exemption of sports formulated by the CJEU, sports betting, as well as...

As early as the seventies the sports authorities in Europe started a campaign in order to achieve the recognition of a sporting exemption from the European rules. In their view the whole of the sporting activity containing also sports rules issued by them should not be subject to the European...

In the early nineties, when the “Bosman” case arose, sports authorities were faced with a great challenge. The widely accepted autonomy and self-regulation of the sports sector was at stake. If sports were to be treated as just another economic activity without exceptions and if its specific...